Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada Loses 1 In 5 Immigrants, High-Skill Labor Most Likely To Flee Canada is world-renowned for its ability to attract immigrants, but few realize how many it fails to retain. A new study found that 1 in 5 immigrants leave for onward […]
Canadian households sent another sign they’re getting comfortable borrowing—the return of home equity loans. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows the balance of home equity line of credit (HELOC) accounts, continued to climb in September. The segment went through a lull as higher rates and stricter lending standards motivated deleveraging. However, with the return of […]
Canadian inflation is picking up, surprising the market despite warnings the slowdown was temporary. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows the Consumer Price Index (CPI) accelerated sharply in October. Experts largely reiterated their expectations of a double-rate cut by next month. However, the data used by the central bank to justify the last double-cut has […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada Makes A Huge GDP Revision, BoC Made Supersized Rate Cut On Bad Data Canada’s economy is doing much better than previously believed, and that’s a problem. Statistics Canada made astronomical revisions to real GDP, adding the equivalent of an extra year […]
The number two at Canada’s central bank just made it clear she isn’t a policy cheerleader, like the Governor has been in recent months. Bank of Canada (BoC) Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers addressed finance professionals at the Economic Club of Canada last week, explaining the usual mortgage market risks. It got more interesting when she […]
Canada must have found some economic progress in the pocket of an old winter coat. Last week Statistics Canada (Stat Can) made some big upward revisions to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) data. The country’s national statistics agency found the equivalent of a whole year of economic activity that was hiding between 2021 to […]
Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Rental List Prices Make First Drop Since COVID, BC & ON Cities Lead Lower Canadian rental prices just made their first annual drop in years. The average monthly asking price for a rental fell to $2,151 in October, down 1.2% from […]
The Greater Toronto real estate price boom continued to unwind last month. Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) data shows the price of a composite benchmark (typical) home fell once again in October. Prices have now rolled back to where they were 3-years ago, falling nearly half the cost of a home just 10-years prior. […]
The Canadian and American economies are closely intertwined and tend to perform similarly. Which makes sense, since the two countries have similar levels of affluence and strong cross border trade. Rarely do the two countries see much economic divergence, but this is one of those times. The Canadian economy is slowing much faster than the […]
Canada’s central bank may be moving a little faster than the market anticipates. The Bank of Canada (BoC) released its quarterly market participant survey (MPS) this morning. The survey asks prominent financial market participants what they’re expecting in the coming months in terms of economic growth, inflation, and policy. Most respondents see Canada’s real GDP […]
